Summer 2008 week 13: 08/06

Hi everybody, I'm hopeful about your projects as we go into this last week of preparation. Last week there were some hopeful signs. From all appearances, most of you have either started or completed a good portion of the pages, but there are still a few of you who are quite behind, which is something I don't quite understand.     This has not been a difficult final project. I have told you exactly what to do, and given you all the code you need to do it up to now. In most cases, you have still needed to figure out where to put the code, but nonetheless, it has required little from you; however, these last two pages are different. With them and at this point, we start to separate those who understand what we have been doing from those who do not.   &nsbp; The last two pages that we are going to do are the contact page, and the home page. Up to now, you've had very detailed step-by-step instructions and explanations, but for this last posting of the term, I will only tell you what I want for the contact page and show you how it should look. I will NOT be giving you any of the code or go into very detailed explanations. By now, you should understand how to do everything that I will be asking you to do for this page, or at least know where to find examples in this blog.     The last page, the home page, is entirely up to you. You are to design and code it entirely on your own without any instruction from me whatsoever. Unfortunately, however, although I gave you the content and directions you need for the home page (index.html) two weeks ago, only 1 or 2 of you had actually begun working on it by last night.     Please note that although the entire site is important, these last two pages are the most important that you have to design and code. They are worth the most points, so do not forget about them. Carter-

1. TOPICS:
   1. Final Project;
      • LINK   Content Requirements;
      • LINK   Technical Requirements;
      • LINK   Design Requirements;
   2. Classwork:
      • LINK   Global CSS
      • LINK   Contact Page
2. HOMEWORK:
   1. Final Exam—here is the study sheet for the final quiz next week: LINK
   2. Extra Credit—For extra credit for the final project, you must revise your gallery: instead of linking the thumbnail images to the websites, like the thumbnails to the larger images that you created when you took the screen shots. Place those images each in their own webpage with the same template heading. Below the image, put the name of the site and its url, and use the large image as a link to the site.
   3. Final Project, Part IV: The entire project is due next week. The site that you have produced accompanies a book that has already been published that highlights some of the best web-designs of last year. Below are the Requirements:
      1. Four main parts:
         1. the home page
         2. six about pages (six versions of the page, each one for a different language);
         3. two gallery pages; and
         4. a contact page that will include a form for submitting personal information;
      2. File & Folder preparation:
         1. Create a new folder for your final project named yourName_yourID;
         2. Inside this folder place ONLY those .html files that are used for your project. There should be NO extraneous files. If you have any extra files that are not used in your project within your folder, your grade will be marked down;
         3. Also inside this folder create another folder for your images. Place ONLY those .jpg, gif, or .png files that are used for your project. There should be NO .psd files in your images folder(s), only .jpg, .gif, or .png files. And once again, there should be NO extraneous files;
         4. Create another folder within your main folder and name it CSS. You will see below what you should place inside this folder.
         5. Check all code in all files and make certain it follows XHTML strict standards. If you are uncertain as to what this means check in my blog or, click here for links to W3Schools: LINK 1  ; LINK 2; LINK 3; LINK 4;
      3. Links: Make certain all your links work. It is perhaps the most serious and fundamental flaw if your links do not function, and may result in failure.
      4. Browsers & Platforms: View your site in both Firefox and Explorer on the PC as well as both Safari and Firefox on the MAC (there are Macs in room 210), and make certain everything works and looks all right everywhere. I will be checking everyone's project this way and points will be taken off if there are serious problems in one or more browser or platform;
   You should have at least begun the home page by now, and you should have completed all the other pages except the contact page by now. This posting concerns that page.    For those of you who want to make sure that you do well on the final project, show me a complete, or nearly complete version of it BEFORE class next Wednesday evening. Projects are due at 6:30pm Wednesday Evening. If you cannot make it by that time, please let me know ahead of time and perhaps we can work something else out. Otherwise, I will NOT accept late projects.